--- title: Genesis 3:11 (JPS 1917) — Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shou… · tree and pragmatics description: Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?' Who acts: thou, I. Genesis 3:11 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.72/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tanakh/) / [Torah](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/) / [Genesis](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/) / [chapter 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN/3/) / [3:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.11/) / JPS 2 # Genesis 3:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?' **Who acts:** thou, I · **What happens:** eat, command, not eat · **To what, where:** thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is Genesis 3:11 · JPS 1917, sentence 2 of 2 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = jps:GEN:72 # text = Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?' 1 Hast have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 whereof whereof ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 obl _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 10 iobj _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 14 shouldest should AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 18 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=ask | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present · perfect | thou | | | | | of the tree | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of tree=Source | | 2 | **command** | past | I | | thee | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **eat** | should | thou | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew} וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מִ֚י הִגִּ֣יד לְךָ֔ כִּ֥י עֵירֹ֖ם אָ֑תָּה הֲמִן־הָעֵ֗ץ אֲשֶׁ֧ר צִוִּיתִ֛יךָ לְבִלְתִּ֥י אֲכָל־מִמֶּ֖נּוּ אָכָֽלְתָּ׃ [Genesis 3:11: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Onkelos →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.11/) This verse in JPS 1917: 1. [And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.71/) 2. **Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'** **Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:GEN:72` of Mova's parse database. **The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter. - ← previous: [Genesis 3:11 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.71/) - next →: [Genesis 3:12 (JPS)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.73/) - ↑ back to [Genesis 3:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.3.11/)